An atheist rediscovers Christianity

[Hydra009]

Kinda like how you make broad stroke statements of those on the right and then get offended when someone does the same to the left?

The difference is that he criticizes conservative policies/beliefs that actually exist in large numbers around here.  You do not.

[trdsf]

Kinda like how you make broad stroke statements of those on the right and then get offended when someone does the same to the left?

Ah, yes.  The ever-popular "I know you are but what am I?"

First of all: find one where I did exactly that.  I think you'll find that I'm generally very careful to specify who and what I'm talking about.

Second of all, if you do find one, show that it's not correct.  Show that I pulled some bullshit statement out of my ass like you did.

Your second biggest mistake was in trying to tell me what I, as a denizen of the political left, think.  Never do that.  If you want to know if I believe something, you fucking ask me.  You do NOT drop a stupid-ass statement like you did, not if you want to retain even a fig-leaf of credibility.

Your biggest mistake is thinking it's defensible.  All you've demonstrated to me is that I have no need to give a rat's ass about your opinion anymore.

[Cavebear]

The world is full of 2 kinds of people.  There are those who simply cannot understand reality and hope for a better world after they die, and those who understand the real world where we live and die and "that's it" where the heart stops, the brain dies and all conciousness ends. 

The people I've known best on the first are generally pretty stupid.  They live their only existence waiting for the next, and so don't really much care (or actively ignore) what happens here on Earth.  They expect their real existence happens after they get their halo up in the "clouds".

If they would stop intruding their "uncaringness" on the rest of us, it probably wouldn't matter too much.  They could live here while they wait to die and go "beyond", and it wouldn't do much harm.

But they (illogically) won't.  They just HAVE to push on the rest of us, frighten children, upset old adults, etc. 

I think it is because they aren't sure they are right...

[Baruch]

Correct, this is it!  Demand a refund while you still can ;-)

[Cavebear]

Correct, this is it!  Demand a refund while you still can ;-)

Send all refunds to the Atheist organization of your choice.  And we'll need your credit card number and security code of course (just for the tax statement we need to send to you).  A mere formality...

[Sal1981]

Part of the theistic programming is copying itself.

[Baruch]

Part of the theistic programming is copying itself.

aka meme.  Everything in language is a meme.

[Sal1981]

aka meme.  Everything in language is a meme.

Well, if you want to be pedantic, then memeplexes, of memetics.

[Unbeliever]

We live in the "me me" generation. Hence the word "meme."

[Baruch]

We live in the "me me" generation. Hence the word "meme."

Memeplex is obsolete, since the Millennials abandoned the malls and their theaters.

[Cavebear]

We live in the "me me" generation. Hence the word "meme."

I always though "meme" came from "gene"...   Like a genetic spread... 

[Unbeliever]

Well, I think that's how Dawkins meant it. But I like "me me."

[Cavebear]

Well, I think that's how Dawkins meant it. But I like "me me."

I like "me me" too.  There is an inherent selfishness to both.

[Baruch]

I like "me me" too.  There is an inherent selfishness to both.

We had a selfish Gene, until his wife konked him with a rolling pin ;-)

[Unbeliever]

Remember Gene Gene the Dancing Machine?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME_rrjIODTE


At 1:16 we get a bit of a more than we'd bargained for! Now that's a meme!